You know you had great faculty instructors in your mathematics and statistics classes, right? Maybe what you didn't know is that these same faculty members are quite active in their research and scholarly activities, both locally and around the world. To give you an idea, we describe here some recent award-winning achievements by various faculty from our department:

• Joan X. Hu , Assistant Professor in statistics, won the College of Arts and Sciences Early Career Research Award for 2001-2002. Joan's research activities include collaboration with medical personnel at St. Jude's hospital.
   
• Jerry Goldstein , Professor in mathematics, works in partial differential equations, and has research contacts around the globe. On April 16, 2002, at the annual faculty convocation, Jerry received the University of Memphis Alumni Association 2002 Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement Award for sciences and engineering. Additionally, his 60th birthday, along with that of Rainer Nagel (of the University of Tuebingen in Germany) was celebrated at the Mathematics conference "Semigroups and Evolution Equations" at the Fabri Institute in Blaubeuren, Germany the week of June 13-17, 2001. A volume of research papers honoring Jerry is expected to be published around the beginning of 2003.
   
• George Anastassiou , Professor in Mathematics, works in approximation theory and computational analysis. He was awarded the A. Pallas Award of $2500 for the best paper in Mathematical Analysis during 98-00 by the Academy of Athens, Greece. Prof. Anastassiou is the Editor in Chief of the new Journal of Concrete and Applicable Mathematics.